Plastic Pages - Chewing it - Yum Yum

It took a while for solid info on the Plastic logic electronic reader to trickle down the web to me. IMHO, although it is supposedly aimed at a 'non-lesiure' or business market it will more than give Sony and Kindle a run for, your money.

In his embedded presentation here, Richard Archuleta mentions that the device has an open standard - for me the most interesting and exciting aspect of the product. We all know about thae VCR becoming an electronic babysitter.

For business technologists, business writers, creative writers, digital creatives, indeed all writers; this must be an interesting development, all writers are readers - a simple fact new writers often overlook or conversely become preoccupied with.

Works considered 'classic' or essential to writers' understanding of their craft seem to grow exponentially by the week. Apart from the actual classics, I have easily 100 books about learning various forms of writing on my physical bookshelf and another half a terabyte of articles and essays, papers, notes, clips, presentations, diagrams, images, etc etc filling my external WD drive. Yet only seven of those books and a surprisingly small number of articles and papers actually discuss future formats. Few writers feel equipped to speak about the future of their craft.

The BBC posted an article on it today and as usual, the whole discussion is framed in terms of our current media formats, existing and past platforms - we are speaking and writing about future technology but in yesterday's critical vocabulary.

Its frustrating that Richard and his colleagues must also do the same to ensure they don't alienate the vast rump of the business community that is, treacle-like, reluctantly trudging towards a networked future.

Rather than the Sony Reader, or Kindle, I'd really like to get my hands (& eyes) on one of these devices - specifically to test if it will support some new forms and formats I've been playing around with lately and which I believe will become more prominent in the future.